Mirjam Sophia Glessmer

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Bergen harbour wave watching

September 20, 2019
Oh look, someone built a perfect rectangular wave watching basin into Bergen harbour! As you see above, waves are propagating towards this little wave tank and into it. They then…
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Reflections in waves

May 5, 2019
After doing a #friendlywaves post from a Norwegian fjord yesterday, let’s do another one from somewhere south of Bergen, by my friend Arnt. Very different mood today! What I find…
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Wave reflections

September 20, 2018
This still is one of my favourite kinds of wave field to look at. So calming. (Who am I kidding. All waves are my favourite waves, of course! I am…
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Total reflection and fishies

September 6, 2017
Do you know the phenomenon that once you start noticing something, you see it everywhere? That’s been the case with me and total internal reflection. Not quite as impressive as…
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Total internal reflection

September 5, 2017
Have you ever wondered why at some angles the sea looks blue (or whatever the color of the sky that day) and at others you can actually look into the water?…
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Reflecting the sky

August 15, 2017
Even though I mostly look at the water to see waves, sometimes it is also really nice to just watch the reflections of the sky…
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Reflected wake

July 6, 2017
The best ship-watching of the year happens during Kiel Week (even if I do a fair bit of ship-watching year round ;-)) But this year, I was absolutely fascinated with…
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Wave watching 

July 4, 2017
This is an old picture from early spring, but I just love how the reflection of that pier shows up the different wave lengths so clearly. The longer swell wouldn’t…
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Waves reflecting on a sea wall

May 11, 2017
I really like it when waves reach a sea wall at an angle, because the resulting criss-cross looks so cool :-) And especially cool when you see it gradually building…
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Wave-watching

December 15, 2016
Do you know the feeling when you, even on the most beautiful of days, want to get out of the pretty parks as quickly as possible so you can finally…
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Reflections on reflections

November 15, 2016
When we think about reflections in water, we usually think of calm lakes and trees on the shore opposite to us. Or clouds. Or at least that’s what I think…
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Sun dogs

October 12, 2015
Recently spotted: sun dogs, a special form of halo! Or rather sun dog (singular), since there was only one to be seen and not a second one at equal distance…
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What are the ingredients of a rainbow?

September 15, 2014
Still collecting materials for our instructional short movies. A while back I talked about how my colleague and I were experimenting with short instructional screen casts, and I shared some…
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Rainbows III

August 4, 2014
Updated movie following Arne’s advice. When I asked for feedback on the rainbow movies the other day, Arne had a pretty good idea for how one of the explanations could…
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Secondary rainbows

July 28, 2014
Sometimes you get lucky and see a double rainbow. But how does the second rainbow form? On my first 17th of May in Bergen, Ellen invited me to her home…
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Rainbows and refraction II

July 25, 2014
Taking the same graphics as in this post, but presenting them differently. In the previous post, I presented a screen cast explaining, in a very text-booky way, how rainbows form.…
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Rainbows and refraction

July 23, 2014
Why is a rainbow always red on top and blue at the bottom? We always talk about prisms and refraction and stuff, but be honest – would you be able to…
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